Pricing life why it's time for health care rationing / Peter A. Ubel.
| Author/creator | Ubel, Peter A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, MA : MIT Press, |
| Description | xix, 208 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile HSS Monographs |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Series | Basic bioethics |
| Contents | Machine generated contents note: Cost-Effectiveness and the Controversial Necessity of Health Care -- Rationing 1 -- Rationing According to Cost-Effectiveness: Explicit, Quantifiable, -- and Unacceptable? 3 -- The Politics of Defining Health Care Rationing 11 -- The Necessity of Rationing Health Care 31 -- The Challenge of Measuring Community Values in Ways -- Appropriate for Making Rationing Decisions 47 -- How Do People Want to Ration Health Care? Balancing -- Cost-Effectiveness and Fairness 67 -- Cost-Effectiveness and Bedside Rationing: Do Two Wrongs Make -- a Right? 97 -- The Case Against Bedside Rationing 99 -- Recognizing Bedside Rationing 111 -- Linguistic Confusion about Bedside Rationing 125 -- The Unbearable Rightness of Bedside Rationing 137 -- The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care -- Rationing 153 -- Future Possibilities for Improving How Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Incorporates Public Rationing Preferences 155 -- The Future of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Care -- Rationing 173. |
| General note | "A Bradford book." |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 99020664 |
| ISBN | 0262210169 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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